Machine for filling leers.



PATENTED NOV. 8, 1904.

M. J. OWENS. MACHINE FOR FILLING LEERS.

APPLIOATION FILED 10110.22, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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PATENT OEEIcE.

MICHAEL J. OWENS, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO TOLEDO GLASS COMPANY, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, 'AOORPORATION OF OHIO.

MACHINE FOR FILLING LEERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 774,691, dated November 8, 1904.

Application filed December 22, 1903. Serial No. 186,253. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LMIGHA EL J. OWENS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Filling Leers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to new and useful improvements in amachine for feeding glassware into-leers, and consisting particularly in the construction of a device adapted to push or propel the glassware in rows upon an endless carrier passing through the leer and in the 5 construction of a machine which is efficient, very simple in construction, and certain in its operation, all as more fully hereinafter de scribed, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

2 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a leer with the front hood removed, showing part of the mechanism in section to illustrate the construction of such parts. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the leer, showing the 5 hood in section. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail sections showing the adjustable connections for the guide-rails. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the actuating-cam and pusher.

The leer which I have shown in this appli- 3 cation is an ordinary form of leer now known and used, and consists of the inclosing walls A, within which is an endless carrier B, made up of a series of slats or plates O, connected together in any suitable manner and running over end wheels O on the shaft D in the usual manner. The carrier preferably projects out beyond one end of the leer a short distance, as shown in Fig. 2. Above the endless carrier is the furnace-chamber E, into which the 4 gas-flames are projected through a portion of the leer for tempering the glass, as is customary in such constructions. Attempts have been made heretofore to provide means for feeding the glassware into this endless carrier through openings in the side of the leer, and my invention is a simple form of such side feed and is of the following construction.

F is a stationary guide-rail secured on the brackets Gr, which are in turn secured, preferably, to the end wallof the leer. The guide- 5 rail F may be adjustable horizontally in any desired manner. The construction which I prefer is illustrated in Fig. 4, in which adjusting-screws a are journaled in the end of the brackets G, so as to freely turn therein, but to prevent endwise movement, and the guiderail F has screw-threaded apertures at each end, with which the adj usting-screws engage, and it is evident that by turning the screws the guide-rail F will be moved horizontally 6O thereon.

H is a complementary guide-rail to the guide-rail F and is supported in the guidebrackets I, secured at each side of the end of the leer, as shown in Fig. 1. These brackets 5 are provided with vertical slots J, in which the guide-rail H is adapted to be moved.

K is a lever which I have shown as journaled on a bracket L on top of the leer and connected by the links Z) and c with the in- 7 clined links or braces (Z, which in turn are connected to the guide-rail H. The lever K,

I may provide with a depending chain, rope,

or handle M, by which the operator at the side of the machine may raise and lower the guide-rail H.

N is a table arranged on the plane of the horizontal portion of the endless carrier through the leer, having its inner edge in close proximity to the edge of the leer. This table 30 I have shown supported upon standards O.

P is a head or pusher secured to the inner end of the push-bar P, working in guides Q, on the upper face of the table I This push bar is provided with a roller-wrist R, engag- 5 ing' a cam-groove R in the cam-wheel S on the shaft S, which is driven from any suitable source of power. I have shown it provided at its lower end with the beveled gearwheel 6, meshing with the beveled pinion f on 9 a horizontal shaft g, which shaft is driven from the belt la.

T is a hood to close the open end of the leer and to prevent too great an indraft of air. This hood has an opening opposite the pusher P, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

It will be understood that the pusher P is opposite the space or opening between the two guide-rails F and H and also passes through the opening in the end of the hood.

The parts being thus constructed and a continuous motion being given to the cam-wheel S, it is obvious that the pusher P will be reciprocated horizontally. In case a piece of glassware, such as a bottle U, be placed on thetable N in front of the pusher P, in the inward motion of the pusher the bottle will be moved on the end of the plate of the car rier which is opposite the pusher, as shown in Fig. 2, and such bottle or piece of glassware will be pushed between the two guiderails H and F and be guided and held thereby. As soon as the first bottle is pushed into the carrier the pusher withdraws, and a second bottle or piece of glassware may be placed upon the table in the path of the pusher, and it, too, will be pushed in, at the same time pushing the bottle or articles of glassware in front of it across the carrier. This operation is continued until the glassware is fed in a row clear across the width of the carrier. As soonas a row of articles of glassware have thus been fed into the carrier the operator pulling on the handle'M will lift the guide-rail H from in front of that row of articles and then through a suitable clutch mechanism, which is not shown, but which is of ordinary construction in use in leers, will start the endless belt and cause it to move a sufficient distance to carry that row of'bottles out of the path of the pusher and beyond the guide-rail H within the leer. The operator then lowers the guide-rail H, and a second row is fed in in the manner already described, and this operation may be repeated as long as desired.

It is obvious that in order to make the device capable of use in connection with glassware of different widths the guide-rails H and F must be adjustable to and from each other to accommodate such widths, and the adjustments described are for that purpose.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a machine for feeding glassware into leers the combination of a carrier for moving the ware through the leers of transverse guides above the carrier, means for feeding the ware between the guide-rails upon the carrier, and means for moving the inner guiderail out of the path of the articles.

2. In a machine for feeding glassware into leers, the combination with a carrier for moving the ware through the leer of a continuously-operating reciprocating pusher moving a uniform distance at each operation and a table adapted to receive the article in front of the pusher arranged on the plane of the carrier the pusher being adapted to move the article from the table upon the edge of the carrier.

3. In a machine for feeding glassware into leers, the combination with the carrier adapted to receive and carry the articles through the leer ofa table at one side of the leer on the plane of the carrier, a reciprocating pusher moving a uniform distance at each operation and adapted to move the article from the table onto the edge of the carrier, guiderails extending over the carrier in the path of the pusher, and means for moving the inner guide-rail out of the plane of movement of the glassware when the carrier is operated.

4. A guide for amachine for feeding glassware to leers, consisting of the stationary guide-rail F extending transversely of the carrier in the leer, a vertically-movable guiderail H and means for raising and lowering the movable guide-rail.

5. The combination with the leer and its carrier, of a stationary guide Fmeans for ad justing that guide horizontally the verticallymovable guide-rail H and means for adjusting that rail horizontally in relation to the guiderail F.

6. Thecombination with a leer having an open end, an endless carrier traveling therethrough and extending slightly outside thereof, of the hood T extending over the end of the opening in the leer, and inclosing the horizontal portion of such extension of the carrier, said hood having an opening at one end, and a pusher operating through said opening adapted to move articles onto the carrier.

7. The combination of a leer having a carrier moving therethrough,the leer having an opening opposite the horizontal portion of the carrier, and guides extending across the leer opposite said opening, and means for moving the forward guide out of the path of the articles when the leer-carrier is moved forward.

8. The combination of a leer, an endless carrier therein, and guides extending transversely across the leer, between which the articles are adapted to be moved uponthe carrier from one side thereof.

9. The combination with a leer, a carrier therein, a pusher moving like distances at each operation, and guides extending transversely of the carrier for holding the articles being pushed, whereby after one article is on the carrier it will be moved upon the carrier by the subsequent articles fed in by the pusher.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL J. OWENS.

Witnessesz' WM. S. WALBRIDGE, E. H. CLosE. 

